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This Digital Interactive Notebook is designed to help
you better understand the Cold War era. It includes
pages on vocabulary terms, people, and key events of
this period.

On each page you will see blue text boxes where you
can type responses. Simply click in the box and begin
typing to provide your response. You can also add your
own text boxes by clicking on the text box icon ( ).
You also will need to add images to various pages. You
can do this by clicking on the “Image” icon ( ) or by
going to “Insert > Image” in the menu.

Each text box can also be resized using the borders so

that each fits on your pages.
 Cold War Illustrated Vocabulary
Directions: Research each vocabulary term below and type your own definition in the 2nd
column. Then look for an image that best symbolizes it and insert it in the 3rd column.

Vocabulary Definition Image

Iron Curtain

Berlin Wall

NATO

Warsaw Pact

Truman Doctrine

United Nations

McCarthyism
 Cold War Alliances of Europe
Directions: The Iron Curtain was the symbolic division of Europe between communist
countries under the Soviet Union’s influence in the east and more open countries in the west.
Label each country by dragging and dropping, then use the paint bucket tool fill the text boxes
to identify which alliance they belonged to. Then drag & drop the “iron curtain” to divide them.

E. Great
Poland Germany
Spain Britain USSR Norway

France Finland Hungary Ireland Greece Turkey

W. Italy
Bulgaria Romania Sweden
Germany

Key

Warsaw Pact

NATO

Neutral
 German Occupation & the Berlin
Airlift
Directions: After Germany’s surrender in World War II, the country, and its capital Berlin, were
divided into 4 occupation zones by the Allied countries. While France, England, and the US
desired to rebuild their territories to be strong democratic allies, the Soviet Union wished to keep
its former enemy weak and divided. As a result, they cut off the east and trapped those in West
Berlin. Drag & drop the flags below to match the occupation zones, then
read about the Berlin Airlift here and complete the boxes on the Berlin Airlift.

What was it?

The Berlin Airlift was when western

allies delivered food and supplies to
the city of Berlin by airplane because
the Soviet Union had blocked all
other routes.

Why was it necessary?

Because of the blockade, the people of

Berlin were facing the threat of starvation.

What was the result?

Tons of food and supplies were sent to Berlin each
day, keeping the people of Berlin from starving until
the Soviet Union stopped the blockade.
 The Marshall Plan
Directions: The Marshall Plan was America’s initiative to help Europe rebuild after World
War II. The US gave $17 billion in economic support to the democratic countries of Western
Europe. A popular poster supporting it used a windmill to demonstrate how all democracies
should work together. You can learn more about the plan here, then describe each aspect
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What impact did the Marshall Plan have on Europe and the world?

The Marshall plan helped Europe’s economy recover, and it stopped the
spread of communism in that continent.
 Containment & the Truman
Policy
Directions: President Harry Truman began a new policy toward communism known as
Containment. Learn about this policy and how it involved various strategies to prevent the
spread of communism around the world. Then, for each document, describe how the US tried
to contain communism in that region.

Stopping Communism in Stopping Communism in Asia

Western Europe
The U.S provided financial and military
The U.S. tried to prevent the aid to the French to help them win against
spread of communism in communist, Vietnam. The U.S. also aided
Western Europe by providing South Korea against in the Korean War to
economic assistance to those help liberate them from communist, North
countries and advertising that a Korea who had invaded their country.
free market economy is the
best way to rebuild the
economy.

Stopping Communism in Latin America

The U.S. sent trained Cuban exiles to

invade Bays of Pigs in Cuba to try to
overthrow Fidel Castro’s communist
government.
 The Cuban Missile Crisis
Directions: Perhaps the tensest
moment of the entire Cold War was
the Cuban Missile Crisis in October
1963. This 13 day confrontation
between the US and Soviet Union
almost led to a nuclear war.Learn
more about it here and also here.
Then, complete the text boxes on this
graphic organizer
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• Avoid War • Counteract
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provided Cuba with they had in Italy and Turkey and
missiles promised not to invade Cuba
again.
 Comparing the Korean &
Vietnam
Korea and one in Vietnam. Both were intended to stop Wars
Directions: America fought 2 wars (or conflicts to be specific) during the Cold War. One in
the spread of communism but had
different results.Complete the Venn diagram with characteristics that apply and then some
that apply to both. Think about reasons for the war, when it was fought, how, people involved,
effects, perspectives on them, and their results. Then find and add pictures to each side that
best represent it.

Korean War
• The war 3 years long.
• Neither side really won the war.
• 40,000 American lives were lost.
• North and South Korea are still divided

Both
• The United States got involved in both
wars.
• U.S joined to stop the spread of
communism and to help defend the
freedom of an Asian country
• Both Aggressors were northern
communist countries

• The war was 19 years long.

• The United States lost the war.
• 58,000 American lives were lost.
• North and South Vietnam became one country after
the war.

Vietnam War
 The Cold War Heats Up: 1945 -
Yalta 1969
1945
Finish the speech bubbles for each to say
what each wanted after WWII. Korean War
Find a picture of the 38th Parallel
and paste it here

1950 The Korean War

Why did the US go to war in Korea &
what was the result?

Army-McCarthy Hearings
What was the purpose and the result of
these hearings?
1955
Berlin Wall Goes Up
Why was the Berlin Wall built?

Find and paste a picture of the Berlin Wall

1960 and paste it in the space below.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

Was it a success or failure? Why?

1965
 The Cold War Cools: 1970-1990
Directions: Complete the boxes for the 2
Vietnam War timelines by answering questions,
What made the Vietnam War so 1970 providing information, or adding pictures.
difficult?

Nixon Visits China

Why did President Nixon visit China?
What was the Tet Offensive?

1975 Find a picture of Nixon at a famous

How did the US finally end the war?
landmark in China and paste it in the area
below.

Glasnost & Perestroika

What were these policies and what 1980
effects did they have on the Soviet
Union?

Collapse of the Soviet Union

What prompted the collapse of the
Find a picture of the Berlin Wall
being torn down and paste it here
1985 Soviet Union?

Who became the new leader of Russia?

1990
 Cold War Illustrated Vocabulary
Pt. 2
Directions: Research each vocabulary term below and type your own definition in the 2nd
column. Then look for an image that best symbolizes it and insert it in the 3rd column.

Vocabulary Definition Image

Sputnik

Brinkmanship

Hawks

Doves

Tet Offensive

Watergate

Fall of the Berlin

Wall